Campos Comes Forward, Says He Heard Drilling And Tells What He Believes Tipped Off Paddock

Jesus Campos, the Las Vegas security guard who was the first shooting victim in the Oct. 1 massacre, is missing no more. He is set to appear on “Elllen” Wednesday to give his much-anticipated firsthand account of the shooting.

Campos was lauded as a hero in the aftermath of the shooting, but questions arose when authorities changed their official timeline of the event. Police revealed last week Campos was shot before, not after, gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on concertgoers from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.

Adding to the mystery was Campos’ abrupt cancellation of five television interviews on Thursday, prompting concerns that he had “disappeared.”

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Ellen DeGeneres tweeted a photo Tuesday evening of Campos holding a cane on her set alongside Stephen Schuck, a maintenance engineer who was also shot by Paddock on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay building.

In a recording of the interview obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Campos recounted being on the stairwell going from the 31st to the 32nd floor when he happened upon a door that was blocked and wouldn’t open.

Campos was shot just moments after he summoned Schuck to check on the blocked door. The security guard told DeGeneres he believed the shooter was alerted to his presence when he entered 32nd floor of the hotel.

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“I was walking down and heard rapid fire,” Campos said. “And at first I took cover. I felt a burning sensation. I went to go lift my pant leg up and I saw the blood. That’s when I called it in on my radio that shots have been fired.

“And I was going to say that I was hit, but I got on … my cellphone just to clear radio traffic so they could coordinate the rest of the call.”

After being shot, Campos warned Schuck to take cover.

“He yelled at me, and within milliseconds, if he didn’t say that, I would have got hit,” Schuck said. “I wasn’t fully in cover, and (shots) were passing behind my head and I could feel the pressure.”

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Campos also warned a female guest to take cover in her room at the onset of the shooting.

The Las Vegas Metro Police Department told WND in a phone interview Tuesday that Campos was not a missing man, rather, he couldn’t handle the intense media scrutiny.

Spokesman Larry Hatfield placed blame on independent journalist Laura Loomer driving Campos into hiding. Loomer has been relentlessly questioning the official police narrative in the weeks after the shooting.

“He’s a private citizen. Let me put it this way,” Hatfield said. “If you were getting bombarded by media attention from people like Laura Loomer, it’s your choice not to disclose your location; that is your choice. But that does not make you a missing person. And the fact that the media is reporting you are missing, that is the media, not the police.”

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